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“Life’s too short to hate the people we love the most.”
“Tell Brant…” I inhale a slow, shuddering breath. My teeth are still chattering as I force out words. “Tell him…it’s okay.”
“You have to tell him…June…it’s okay.”
“I need you…to be Mario, now.”
“You were unsure which pain is worse: the shock of what happened, or the ache for what never will.”
“I don’t want to go to college. I don’t want to leave the town my brother took his last breath in.”
“And I don’t want to leave the only brother I have left.”
“I’m just saying, friend to friend, that there are worse things than loving the wrong person.” I stare at him, waiting, my stomach twisting into knots. “And that’s losing them.”
“No relationship comes without a fight, but it has to be worth fighting for. It has to be worth all the sacrifices you’ll inevitably have to make.”
“You still have you. And you matter, too. You matter a whole hell of a lot, okay?”
“Don’t forget about that girl I’ve grown to love like a sister. She has big dreams, and those dreams deserve the same consideration.”
Passion is meaning. Passion is purpose. And tragedy is simply the risk we take in order to experience it.
“I want to stay and build a life with you—a beautiful life I know we deserve. I want to marry you, Brant Elliott, and I want to make love to you every night beneath rainbows and stars. I want to have children with you. I want to raise them strong and brave, just like their father, and I want to sing them lullabies by the light of the moon.”
“I don’t want to chase my dream because it’s not a dream without you in it.”
June told me she wants to marry Brant one day. I told her she couldn’t because he’s her brother. She said, “Theo is my brother. Brant is my handsome prince.” This kid watches too many Disney movies.
“I wish that we can be together forever.” “Forever, huh?” “Forever and ever.”
“I’m your man, June. And the only thing I’ve ever needed is you.”
“Never underestimate a man willing to wait forever for the woman he loves.”
“True happiness is worth every sad, unremarkable minute,”
